{"id":85302,"date":"2011-02-28T21:59:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T13:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/liberty-global-profits-take-a-43-percent-beating-in-2010-fourth-quarter\/"},"modified":"2011-02-28T21:59:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T13:59:47","slug":"liberty-global-profits-take-a-43-percent-beating-in-2010-fourth-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/liberty-global-profits-take-a-43-percent-beating-in-2010-fourth-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Global Profits Take a 43 Percent Beating in 2010 Fourth Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[02-28-11] <strong>Liberty Global<\/strong>\u2019s 2010 fourth-quarter profits fell 43 percent to $57.5 million from $100 million in the same period last year due to weaker tax benefits and losses on derivatives, the company announced in its latest financial results, issued Feb. 35.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Liberty, which owns stakes in <strong>DirecTV<\/strong>, <strong>O3b<\/strong> and a variety cable and broadband operations throughout the world, saw its fourth quarter revenues grow 18 percent to $2.43 billion as more of its customers switched to digital services and triple-play packages. Favorable currency exchange rates, better margins and profits from discontinued operations also helped Liberty offset some of its losses.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Liberty ends 2010 with about 17.6 million customers. The company said it making efforts to ensure more consistent profitability by adding 319,000 revenue-generating units during the quarter \u2014 a 34 percent increase from the same period last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[02-28-11] Liberty Global\u2019s 2010 fourth-quarter profits fell 43 percent to $57.5 million from $100 million in the same period last year due to weaker tax benefits and losses on derivatives, the company announced in its latest financial results, issued Feb. 35. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Liberty, which owns stakes in DirecTV, O3b and a variety cable and broadband [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}